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- If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), The Little Prince
- That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), The Little Prince
- Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
- Hedy Lamarr
- It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Myth of Sisyphus
- All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Myth of Sisyphus
- I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically gettin killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Myth of Sisyphus
- There is but one truly philosophical problem, and that is suicide.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Myth of Sisyphus
- Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. - Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593), Doctor Faustus scene 13
- Music lives in three tenses at once. Developing what comes before it in the past, it engages us in the present, and inspires our hopes for its future.
- Warren Benson, Professor of Composition at The Eastman School of Music
- The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
- Karl Marx (1818 - 1883), Thesis 11
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